COLUMBUS, Ohio - All nine Cleveland State University trustees attended a closed-door meeting Aug. 7, which may have been illegal, when members discussed transferring WCSB 89.3 to Ideastream in secret.

The Aug. 7 event began as a public meeting, but trustees called the meeting into executive session for four hours and adjourned shortly after the closed-door session ended.

Ohio public meetings law requires all government bodies to meet in open, with a handful of exceptions. The exceptions CSU Board Chair Timothy Cosgrove cited were three: personnel matters, trade secrets and the sale or disposition of real property.

Trustee Paul Dolan seconded Cosgrove’s motion to go into closed session, which the trustees then voted to pass.

David Marburger, a longtime Cleveland lawyer and an expert on

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